Taliban 2 – US 0
By John Batchelor on June 25, 2010 at 8:00 PM in Current Affairs
The Obama administration is wedded to the July 2011 withdrawal date. This certainty limits what ISAF can do and points to a future without the US in Central Asia.
POTUS Obama does not concern himself with winning overseas. POTUS and his political brains are focused entirely on victory in 2012.
The ambition is to construct a Pakistan-controlled effort to prop up the the Afghan army (of Potemkin soldiers) (Army by day, Taliban at night) so that Kabul will become Islamabad’s problem.
Am told that Petraeus was in conference with POTUS for forty minutes before he saluted and accepted the role — the demotion.
Spoke Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, re the deep irony that the three senators who mocked Petraeus during the Iraq surge hearings on the Hill in ’07 are now calling upon Petraeus to solve the Afpak troubles — Obama, Biden and Clinton. The left of the Democratic Party still regards the general as “Betray Us.”
Am told that despite the fact that Petraeus will now continue in his ISAF role for two years, POTUS fears the general as a political opponent. Ike II is much current. Remind that Petraeus may not be the man to answer Obama in ’12. But Petraeus is at stage center, and he will be called upon to bless whomever the GOP chooses the winter and spring of ’12. a
Heroes create other heroes.
Editor’s Note: From the blog for The John Batchelor Show (schedule; podcasts).
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